June 22, 2021 Share
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the drive to put shots in arms hit another encouraging milestone Monday: 150 million Americans fully vaccinated.
The coronavirus was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But now, as the outbreak loosens its grip, it has fallen down the list of the biggest killers.
CDC data suggests that more Americans are dying every day from accidents, chronic lower respiratory diseases, strokes or Alzheimer’s disease than from COVID-19.
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Experts spent months on a fair COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, only to witness ‘a chaotic free-for-all’ Stacey Burling, The Philadelphia Inquirer © HEATHER KHALIFA/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Dr. Faith Peterson administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a patient inside the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Feb. 02. The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium has been vaccinating Philadelphia residents.
From last April to December, José Romero met weekly with other vaccine and infectious disease experts to discuss how the nation should dole out early doses of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines in the most effective and fair way.
He and other members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises federal health officials, knew there wouldn’t be enough vaccine for everyone who wanted it. So they spent untold hours devising a phased vaccination system that would slowly increase eligibility for shots as manufacturing ramped up.